Traveler&#39;s trunk.



C. E. SELDEBS. TRAVELER'S TRUNK.

APPLICATION FILED mu: 2. I916.

Patented Feb. 27, 1917.

' CHARLES E. sELnERsQoF FREEroRnn w onK. 1

TRAVELERS TRUNK. 7'

Specification of Letters; Patented Feb. 27 1 917 1 Application filed June 2, 1916. Serial No. 101,221.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES E. SELDERS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Freeport, in the county of Nassau, in the State of New York, have made certain new and useful Improvements in Travelers Trunks, and hereby declare the following specification to be a description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawing.

The invention relates to the construction l of trunks and similar containers for transporting the wearing apparel of travelers and 1 are used the trunk is alsoliable to be pierced others. I

The object of the improvement is to produce a trunk which will have all its parts securely bound together in'a manner which will resist injury from the strain and usage it may be subjected to in transit on railroads and other conveyances. e

The invention is also particularly designed to protect the'outer exposed parts and walls of the trunk from being broken or pierced from violent contact with sharp pointed objects while it is in course of trans portation or other'use. I

The special points of the invention will be more particularly stated in the description following. r p

In the drawings: 1

Figure 1 is a view of my improved trunk with a portion broken away to show construction.

Fig. 2 is a detached enlarged sectional view of the corner construction.

Fig. 3 is a lateral cross section of Fig. 1.

In the construction of a receptacle for containing wearing apparel which is to be transported over railroads and frequently roughly handled, it is desirable to have it constructed so as to resist strain when resting on one end and lifted by the other end, as Well as commodious, and as light in weight as possible.

The construction at present in use consists in employing various'l'ayers of com position, wood, cloth and leather, or of heavy leather alone. Where thick sole leather is used in trunks, it is heavy and expensive and'if imitation leather is used, it is very liable to be readily fractured or pierced if brought in forcible contact with any object having at all sharp or pointed projections.

Trunks are also made witha frame entirely of Wood, having an outer covering of various materials. 'Trunks made of wood and other material have their parts joined at the corners where a sustaining orangle piece is used which is secured to the wooden sides and ends to'hold themtogether. But the nails used at'the ends of the wooden portions' have comparatively little holding power when the nails pierce the wood so close to the end of the'piece ofside or end. In such cases, the nail is apt to split the wood whereit enters across the grain and becomes loose where entering the wood on the lineof the grain. here wooden sides by the forcible contact with sharp corners or points of'other articles while in transit.

In constructing trunksin accordance with my invention, I make the meeting at the corners of the ends and sides in such man-- ner that they cannot split or' part from each other even when strained and racked-and will resist the impingement of evena com- In the drawings A indicates the sideof a trunk'and B an end thereof,.C isa'retain ing corner strip which is right angled in form and lies snugly over the meeting point of the sides and theendpieces.

The sides and ends of the trunk are com-- posed primarily of two webs a, a, of strong, fine meshed, pliable metal, between which is a filling of wood Z), or other similar light weighted material, which will supply form and stability to the structure, and hold the two wallsof wire webbing in place.

In skeleton form my new trunk consists of a structure of two parallel, strong and reasonably stifi', fine meshed, wire walls spaced apart by a wood filling, but secured to each other and to angle, corner braces C, which latter are made of-metal or' a strong fiber material.

The metal webbing walls a, a, of the sides and ends are covered on the exterior surface with' any desired covering material 0, such as stiflened cloth or some composition or imitation leather, which is glued and pressed thereon.

- Pieces of wood at, (Z, are now laid on the sides and ends exterior of the skeleton of webbing and are secured by rivets 7", which pass through themand the two walls of metal Webbing. The cross pieces or layers (Z, d, may be of any desired width with. the

taining piece 6, between the metal webbin The metal webbing on the sides of the filling may extend past the filling at the point where two ends of the trunk body meet at the corners.

The two walls of metal webbing, wood filling and exterior layers 01, d, outside the metal webs are all securely fastened together, by rivets r, 1 which may be also interspersed over the surface between the exterior cross pieces and pass through the entire thickness, the rivets however, being of suffieiently small diameter and sharp pointed to pass through the mesh of the webbing without cutting or causing other injury to it. Where the webbing extends past the filling at the oining corner one of the inner layers is bent and overlaps and lies against the piece at right angles, while the outer layer of web may pass its cut end.

It will be understood that the term sides as used herein, applies to the top also and if desired the bottom may be constructed in the same way, although the bottom of a trunk of this kind is usually made of heavy boards, to which casters are often attached.

WVhen the retaining nails or rivets pass through the two walls of metal webbing and the intervening filling of wood at the corners and the strips (Z, cl, a steadying effect is obtained against lateral strain caused on upending the trunk which is of great value and cannot be otherwise obtained. The sides and ends of the trunk when constructed in this manner will not split although thefastening nails are driven at a point very near their extremities. web and intervening filling provide a broad rest for the securing nails and rivets where Copies of this patent may be obtained for The two walls of metal a single wire wall would form-a narrow destroying fulcrum for the nails.

Claims:

1. A travelers trunk comprising a rectangular receptacle having sides and ends formed of a double Wall or skeleton frame of fine meshed metal webbing superimposed on a sustaining filling of wooden board, said sides and ends being joined at the meeting corners by angle pieces and rivets passing through said double wall of metal web, filling and angle pieces substantially as shown and described.

A travelers trunk comprising a rectangular receptacle having sides and ends composed of metal webbing of fine mesh superimposed on, and retained in place by a central sustaining filling of wood board, the metal webbing of said sides and ends at the meeting corners extending past the wood filling onto the adjacent walls, and secured. thereto substantially as shown and described. a

3. A travelers trunk con'iprising a rectangular receptacle, composed of walls of metal webbing, sustained by a central still ening filling, said metal webbing extending past the central filling at the joining ends and overlapping the adjacent wall, an exterior covering on the metal webbing, trans verse layers of wood cl, corner strips 0 and means for securing said wood and corner strips to the metal webbing substantially as, and for the purpose shown and described.

CHARLES E. SELDERS.

lVitnesses:

A, BELL MALOOMSON, GERTRUDE ScHorrELD.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Eatents, Washington, D. C. 

